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In Reply to: RE: TAS serves up another crock of cognitive dissonance. posted by ark0884 on March 20, 2008 at 07:43:46

The (R) after your name indicates that you are a reviewer, and indeed your profile says that you work for The Absolute Sound. But your post seems to indicate that you are now the importer for the Taiwanese-made Usher line of speakers.

So doesn't this create a conflict of interest, to be a reviewer and an importer?

Or have you stopped being a reviewer and simply forgot to update your profile? (Then it would be more like the case of ex-politicians who have gone on to become lobbyists and typically use their personal relationships with ex-colleagues to further their new commercial agenda?)

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RE: Question about your moniker - ark0884 11:14:44 03/20/08 (2)
Thanks for bringing my outdated profile to my attention. I had forgotten that I had ever entered one since I haven't regularly used this site till now.

Here are the facts. I worked at TAS for less than a year upon retirement; I spent 20% of my time at TAS, not as a Reviewer (the R refers to any affiliation with the Press, not just as reviewer). I worked on what you might call business development; my major contribution in that role was structuring and conducting the acquisition of Hi Fi Plus to save it from going under.

I currently am Vice President of the League of American Orchestras and CEO of MusikMatters. I am pursuing neither of these for money; I spent 23 years making money in a far more lucrative profession, and decided to devote whatever talent and energy I still had after retiring from my main career, to the two things that I care about a lot: Audio and Classical music. Both are facing enormous challenges in sustaining their industries.

I hope you are not suggesting that anyone that had anything to do with an audio magazine is permanently barred from making any other contributions to the world of audio. I continue to shake my head at the amount of backbiting that routinely goes on in an industry that focuses its attention on infighting rather than taking on the more difficult and important challenge of figuring out ways to fight the creeping invasion of Lo Fi into the lower price levels of audio and the mainstream press that reflexively attacks the high end as a bunch of crazies and ignores the phenomenal accomplishments of this tiny market niche we all live in.
- well said, Atul, well said! - danny kaey 22:55:45 03/22/08 (0)
  ...
- Thank you - Charles Hansen 17:03:49 03/20/08 (0)
  < < conducting the acquisition of Hi Fi Plus to save it from going under > >
  
  Thanks for the clear explanation and thanks for working to continue Hi-Fi+'s continued success. I enjoy that magazine very much and am glad that it has continued unchanged since its acquisition.
or maybe.. - Craiger56 10:19:26 03/20/08 (1)
..like retiring military brass going to work for defence contractors?
- It seems like an easy (but perhaps unethical) way to make easy money. [nt] - Charles Hansen 10:58:35 03/20/08 (0)
  nt

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